Our Team

As an organization, MGGG operates on multiple scales. We have a core group in the Boston area,
a larger group of active contributors working with us on various projects, and several hundred
people who attended our
cycle of training sessions around the country in 2017-18, including dozens who are preparing to
serve as expert witnesses
and consultants.

At the largest level of zoom, 1,932 people from a range of specialized backgrounds
had filled out our Skills and Interests
Inventory as of Oct 1, 2018
to be part of our global network of collaborators on call. This represents a very wide range of
talent,
from statistics to critical race theory to mobile app development. If your organization needs
technical expertise in the voting rights sphere, please reach out to us for contacts and
support
at gerrymandr@gmail.

Local Team

Hakeem Angulu is a junior at
Harvard College concentrating in Computer Science and Statistics, with a Secondary in African
American Studies. He is dedicated to building projects that amplify voices, facilitate
justice, and push limits.
He works with MGGG through the Radcliffe Research Program, focusing on algorithms and
computer experiments.

Ruth Buck is a recent graduate of Macalester College, where she studied
geography and
data science. Her work for MGGG focuses on GIS (geographic information
systems), cartography, and political and demographic data.

Daryl DeFord is a postdoc in the
group,
with research interests in complex networks and the mathematics of social data. He
completed his Ph.D. in
Mathematics in 2018 at Dartmouth College under the supervision of Dan Rockmore.

Moon Duchin founded MGGG in
2016 to focus
mathematical attention on redistricting.
Her areas of mathematical expertise are in geometry,
topology, and dynamical systems. Her affiliations at Tufts University
include Mathematics,
STS, and the
Tisch College of Civic Life.

Max Hully is the software developer for MGGG, building open-source tools
and web resources
to make understanding redistricting accessible to everyone. He is on leave from doctoral
work in discrete
geometry and algebraic combinatorics at UMass Amherst.

Aidan Kestigian is
the program manager
for MGGG, managing the group's research, civic, and fundraising initiatives. Prior to
working for MGGG, Aidan
earned a PhD in Logic, Computation, and Methodology at Carnegie Mellon University. She
maintains active research
interests in voting theory and social & political philosophy.

Justin Solomon leads
the
Geometric Data Processing Group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL),
which studies problems at the intersection of geometry, large-scale optimization, machine
learning, and
applications. He joined MGGG's leadership in 2017 and is directing theoretical research and
implementation
for algorithmic approaches to generating and analyzing districting plans.

Key Collaborators, Past and Present

Mira Bernstein is an educator and data scientist who helped launch MGGG
and was an active member in 2016-17. She was the lead on the Educator Training sessions
as part of our national workshop cycle, and she
designed a related gerrymandering course for Math for America. She was one of the
authors of MGGG's white paper on voting systems in Santa Clara.

Ari Nieh was a founding member of MGGG, specializing in
mathematics
pedagogy and communication. He developed and presented materials on gerrymandering and
geometry at our Educator
Training sessions around the country in 2017-18. He is a co-editor on the MGGG book project
tentatively called
Political Geometry.

Zachary Schutzman is a
PhD student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, working
with Aaron Roth. Zach's work with MGGG includes algorithm design for various software projects
and interactive introductions to the math of redistricting. More broadly, Zach works on topics at
the interface of computing and social norms, such as fairness and privacy.

Olivia Walch is a postdoc at the
University of Michigan. Her research interests include mobile app development and the
mathematics of sleep, image processing, and redistricting. Apps developed by her have been
downloaded close to half a million times. She’s also a cartoonist
and
her art will appear in MGGG's edited volume,
Political Geometry.